I agree that your GPA may limit you at some schools. I know how hard it is to get a strong GPA, but it doesn’t mean that you’re not capable.
I would speak with your school counselor just to ask about where former alumni, with a similar GPA, have been accepted.
If you really want to “do medicine”, I suggest that you start at your instate universities. The minute you go on campus, find your academic tutoring center.
When our eldest was planning to study medicine, that was the first thing that was recommended to her, by my friends, who were physicians.
They advised her that if she wanted to maintain her “A” average, then she needed to go to tutoring.
She already was a A student, but the university level of instruction and material covered, was completely different-it was harder, more tedious and very rapid.
This is why the posters here are telling you that your GPA is going to affect your admission.
The universities don’t want you to fail. If you fail, they fail. A number of students who typically, get A’s, are shocked and surprised when they receive C’s and D’s in the freshman year of college. It’s not that they don’t know the material, it’s that going away to school is very different.
In combination with learning how to live with others, and organizing your study habits, a lot of emotional factors affect your studies.
Our daughter was taught how to organize her studies to be efficient and rapid. This daughter eventually became a tutor in engineering and CS.
So I would suggest you make sure you apply to your in-state universities and a few other affordable options out of state because you’re going to be in school a long expensive time if you plan on doing medicine.
Also, I would hold off on “suturing” because you’re not a physician and that can be dangerous and risky to the patient, regardless of whether they’re not in the same country. Also, a lot of people would consider it unethical for a high school student to be doing that during a church sponsored trip.
I know I would be VERY uncomfortable if any of my children did that as an underaged, non-physician volunteer. Our middle daughter did go to medical school and that would’ve been a big no-no and red flag for her Medical school.